Die Hard Some More
Joined BP and GNK+1 at the Surrey Quays Odeon this afternoon for a screening of Die Hard 4.0, featuring the aging, sagging and now totally bald Bruce Willis in his fourth outing as Detective John McClane. Can it really be 12 years since Die Hard With A Vengeance? Good grief. And almost 20 years since he took out the German terrorists on the Nakatomi Plaza in LA?
But this was rollicking good stuff, with lots of action, lots of gore, but not enough of Maggie Q. The heart aches. The plot, such as it is, includes a car taking down a helicopter, and more incredibly, a giant Transformer-like trailer taking down a F35 fighter jet. Amazing innit? And at the end, after lots of blood, the baddie sprawls onto the floor, dead, which was what we had expected all along, with Lucy, McClane’s daughter, being freed at last.
So near the climax of the movie, when all seemed intractable, computer whiz Matt Farrell, whom McClane was protecting, asks if they had a plan or something.
“To rescue Lucy and kill everyone else,” he replies.
What a wonderful line.
Before catching the movie, we tucked in merrily on Vietnamese beef noodles at Café East on the corner of Evelyn Street and the imaginatively-named Lower Road. Hugh bowl of pho, with lots of bean sprouts, mint leaves and coriander liberally thrown in, accompanied by a chendol-liked drink called the che. It was most satisfying. I seem to have Vietnamese noodles only when I’m abroad though. Surely there’s a good place in Singapore for pho? Any ideas where?
But this was rollicking good stuff, with lots of action, lots of gore, but not enough of Maggie Q. The heart aches. The plot, such as it is, includes a car taking down a helicopter, and more incredibly, a giant Transformer-like trailer taking down a F35 fighter jet. Amazing innit? And at the end, after lots of blood, the baddie sprawls onto the floor, dead, which was what we had expected all along, with Lucy, McClane’s daughter, being freed at last.
So near the climax of the movie, when all seemed intractable, computer whiz Matt Farrell, whom McClane was protecting, asks if they had a plan or something.
“To rescue Lucy and kill everyone else,” he replies.
What a wonderful line.
Before catching the movie, we tucked in merrily on Vietnamese beef noodles at Café East on the corner of Evelyn Street and the imaginatively-named Lower Road. Hugh bowl of pho, with lots of bean sprouts, mint leaves and coriander liberally thrown in, accompanied by a chendol-liked drink called the che. It was most satisfying. I seem to have Vietnamese noodles only when I’m abroad though. Surely there’s a good place in Singapore for pho? Any ideas where?
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